Less than 30 pounds cabinet?

[funkinbottom]

There's a 1x12" Bergantino EX112 for sale in the classifieds here $350 obo. He has two available. No affiliation.

For sale Bergantino EX112

Bergantino Cab without tweeter

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• Oct 23, 2025
• Updated Dec 16, 2025
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• Category: For Sale: Amps, Preamps, and Cabinets

$350.00

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[bigdaddybass12]

Could find an Epifani UL in that price range. You might also find an EA Wizzy.

I checked. 35 lbs!

 

[mauerkraut_]

Many modern neo 1x12s will work. Look around for their prices used. Most all of these would fit the bill.

Aguilar SL112 is 25 lb
Ampeg SVT210AV is 26 lb.
Orange OBC112 is 26 lb
Ashdown CTM-112 is 26 lb
Darkglass DG112NE is 27 lb.
GK NEO IV 112 is 30.8 lb

Addition: I asked chat GPT to run specs on these and a few more cabs and then calculate sensitivity per pound, and the winner was the Aguilar.

The Aguilar SL112 has the highest sensitivity per pound at 3.996 dB/lb

 

[Flatwound]

I have a couple of Orange OBC112’s. 27 lbs each, I think $649 each new, but obviously cheaper used.

 

[strost]

Adding on the RevSound (210) love. (remove beer before playing). I also have a 28 that is plenty loud for practices.

 

[bigdaddybass12]

Have come to a realization, that less pounds is more money! You can buy really good 35- 40 pound cabs &350 or $400. Anything less price goes up! GK Neo four, 800 bucks 29 pounds Mesa boogie ultralight 12, used, 800 bucks. The painful part is is I need and want 2 cabinets!

 

[TOOL460002]

Schroeder Mini 12+L 24lbs 500W or the 12PL which is 30lbs and 700W.

 

[brianrost]

Are the HT's neo?

Nope, good old ceramic magnet. Was just used on a gig tonight. I really love the sound, but 39 pounds seems heavy to me now. I use a hand cart unless it’s a really short trip from the car to the stage. I hate it because I’ve been playing a few venues where getting a hand cart through narrow front doors is clumsy. I use the cart to get from the car to the door, then I unload the Berg and a milk crate with my amp head and cables to go into the venue, then go back outside and bring the hand cart in. Hard to believe I used to carry an HT112 in each hand!

I’ve been looking at lighter cabs as well as combos but I give up the Berg sound. Rumbles, for example are nice and light but they don’t sound nearly as good. I’ve been eyeing the Traynor SB112, made in Canada, 200 watts with a 4ohm 12", 26 pounds and slightly smaller dimensions than the HT112.

There's a 1x12" Bergantino EX112 for sale in the classifieds here $350 obo.

The EX112 is just the HT112 without a tweeter, 36 pounds. The magnet on the driver is 5 pounds. I guess the tweeter and crossover add 3 pounds to the HT112.

Good price though!

 

[mark107]

I have been doing bass gigs since the 70s. The early 70s! I have likely owned a literal ton of bass cabinets. I still own an SWR 4x10 cabinet, and the matching 2x10 cabinet. These are from the Go Light series, which are quite a bit lighter than the previous generation, which I also owned. I gigged these hard for many years. But since buying a RevSound 2x10 cabinet three or so years ago, the SWR cabinets just sit in the back bedroom. The RevSound 2x10 cabinet weighs about 30 pounds, and it will cut all but the very loudest gigs. And in this day and age of PA support, it's pretty much always enough. Most of the gigs I play these days, however, I use the RevSound 1x12 cabinet. While it's not going to fill a very large room with low end on a loud band gig, it is certainly loud enough on stage to keep up with a very loud drummer, and an electric guitar player with a very large loud Fender guitar amp. I used to need a 2x15 cabinet to do that! And that one weighs well under 22 pounds. I can't say enough good things about both of these cabinets. I also own the RevSound 2x8 cabinet, which I use now and then. It's also a really great cabinet, but I prefer the lower extension of the larger cabinets. These cabinets weigh less than most of the others, and they sound excellent. My advice is just buy one of these and be done with it.

 

[bigdaddybass12]

I’ve been looking at lighter cabs as well as combos but I give up the Berg sound. Rumbles, for example are nice and light but they don’t sound nearly as good.

I have been using a rumble 100 at my small restaurant gig. People say it sounds good. To me it sounds “cheap”

 

[bigdaddybass12]

Are you looking for two 12” cabs under $600 total or for each cab?

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Yea on 2 $800

 

[JJR58]

If you can find a pair of Baer 112’s.
You’re all set.
Preferably the series 2.

 

[M-Mittlesteadt]

I have been using a rumble 100 at my small restaurant gig. People say it sounds good. To me it sounds “cheap”

I've never met a cab I couldn't get a great tone out of. I used to design and build bass cabs. My main concern is it's ability to handle the volume I need to play at. Tone? That's what tone controls, preamps and such are for.

I'm not saying you are one of these players...but so many set the controls flat and wonder why they don't like the tone. I do agree cabs have a "baked in" tone from the manufacturer. My Rumble 100's on their own sound rather "boxy" (or perhaps "cheap") but I find the lo-mid is the culprit. That 100Hz area can make almost any cab sound like crap. I cut the lo-mids quite a bit on my Rumble 100(s) and it sounds great to me.

I think they are a great, light 22 lb. Combo. I use one for small, low volume gigs (100 watts into a 112) or two chained together when I want/need more volume (essentially a 200 watt, 212 rig). But, I can get any cab that can handle the volume I need to sound great, mostly because I run my bass into my Zoom B1X FOUR into my Xenyx mixer (as my pseudo preamp)...

I get "my" tone" and slightly adjust amp tone controls as needed/wanted, whether it's through my headphones, my Rumble 100's, monitors, FOH PA or any provided backline bass amp/cab.

I've learned over time to never rely on any speaker cab to give me the tone I want.

 

[bigdaddybass12]

I've never met a cab I couldn't get a great tone out of. I used to design and build bass cabs. My main concern is it's ability to handle the volume I need to play at. Tone? That's what tone controls, preamps and such are for.

I'm not saying you are one of these players...but so many set the controls flat and wonder why they don't like the tone. I do agree cabs have a "baked in" tone from the manufacturer. My Rumble 100's on their own sound rather "boxy" (or perhaps "cheap") but I find the lo-mid is the culprit. That 100Hz area can make almost any cab sound like crap. I cut the lo-mids quite a bit on my Rumble 100(s) and it sounds great to me.

I think they are a great, light 22 lb. Combo. I use one for small, low volume gigs (100 watts into a 112) or two chained together when I want/need more volume (essentially a 200 watt, 212 rig). But, I can get any cab that can handle the volume I need to sound great, mostly because I run my bass into my Zoom B1X FOUR into my Xenyx mixer (as my pseudo preamp)...

I get "my" tone" and slightly adjust amp tone controls as needed/wanted, whether it's through my headphones, my Rumble 100's, monitors, FOH PA or any provided backline bass amp/cab.

Yeah, I noticed if I cut both mids down around 10 it sounds much better. Plus I play a EBMM which adds to the issue! Also no pedals! I do have or admit is sure is easy to move! Most 12” cabs are over 35 lbs. also. I am
Not getting any younger. I am angling all my stuff to retire soon. Excluding my heavy bass!
Plus, I like changing my stuff out too. I use an amp/cab at my larger gig.

 

[M-Mittlesteadt]

Yeah, I noticed if I cut both mids down around 10 it sounds much better. Plus I play a EBMM which adds to the issue! Also no pedals! I do have or admit is sure is easy to move! Most 12” cabs are over 35 lbs. also. I am
Not getting any younger. I am angling all my stuff to retire soon. Excluding my heavy bass!
Plus, I like changing my stuff out too. I use an amp/cab at my larger gig.

Have you tried using the "mid-cut" Contour button and then changing the mid controls to bring the lo-mids/hi-mids back up as needed? The Rumble does has a rather "boxy" (cheap in your words) sound as part of the stock, "baked in" tone. I find that to be true.

If (and when I used to) run directly into my Rumbles directly, using the Contour button is what I did (before I got the Zoom). Just my opinion of course, but the lo-mids are the most problematic frequencies with almost any speaker cab. Of course a lot of these issues tend to be born out of a desire to address the all too typical "cut through the stage mix".

Perhaps I've just gotten wiser, but I no longer wish to play at stage volumes where players are competing for sonic space. Most guys I play with now prefer to play at a more beneficial, tone friendly volume.

And I'm definitely thrilled to have a combo I can literally pick up with one finger (I can, but I don't carry it that way). 22 lbs. is insanely light for a giggable (amp and cab) combo.

 

[H Nighttrain]

Any other old bass cats in the same boat?

I was in that boat a few years ago. I did plenty of research taking into account weight, size, efficiency (grain of salt), sound quality (subjective), etc., and cost.

At that time I had been mainly using a 55 lb Eden 210. I went out on a limb (having never played, heard, or even seen one) with a 36 lb., 4-ohm RevSound RS212 and was blown away by the light weight and the sound quality, as well as the volume the cab could produce.

Its only issue is that it's a pain getting it into and out of my little car. I then found a used 8-ohm RS115, figuring i could use it when I didn't need as much volume. But it quickly became the only cab I needed. 25 lbs, fits in thd car easily, sounds fabulous... nothing but great. My R212 is now my "luxury" cab.

If you can tolerate the time of a custom build, the RS115 would likely make you very happy.

I also now have a retirement home in an urban (no car) area, and to gig here I needed an even smaller cab. I again went back to Dave to build me an RS28. It's a little taller than the 115 but I reckon about 1/4th footprint, and even lighter at just under 20 lbs. But it sounds incredible, kinda responds like the 115 (in my head at least, I'm not able to A/B them), and has handled everything I've asked it do, over 100 gigs, indoors/outdoors, blues, rock, pop, r&b, g/b/d trio or with keys and horns, almost never going thru a PA. Unbelievably portable and capable.

(I will caveat that I'm "classic 4-string P bass thru Ampeg" and figure my variable HPF is also key to a tight, deep sound and likely allows me to hit higher volume without damaging speakers via overexcursion. Hard to say since I never gig without it).

 

[dannylectro]

Schroeder. That is all.

 

[Bassdirty]

My markbass 210 P is 28# and you can the neo cabinets in the 23# range.

+1.

Amazingly Light these days.

Not sure if OP will find something "Light" For 5-600 though.
Usually costs more for.. well... less.. weight.



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[Johno Dunn]

Do yourself and your back a favor and get a GRBass cab. I have the AT 110 active cab, and it is all I’ll ever need for the gigs I do. 12lbs.!

 

[60bass]

JUsr received this cabinet yesterday, GK NEO IV single 12. Right on the edge of the weight limit @ 30.8 pounds. Sounds HUGE with my Fusion 800 S powering it. Of course any rig that has a 1960 Precision going through it will sound HUGE. I also own the NEO IV 212 cabinet too. So together they make a nice stack.